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Companion vol. to the author's French fascism: the first wave, 1924-1933.

Description:

xii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

The Debate over Fascism. The Consensus School of French Historiography. The Sternhell Controversy. Historical Fascism in Italy and Germany. Defining Fascism. Contextualizing Fascism. Common Denominators of European Fascism --
1. Social and Political Context. The Depression and Its Political Consequences. The Riots of February 6, 1934. The Popular Front --
2. Minor and Declining Fascisms, Newspaper Allies, and the Greenshirts. Small and Large Fascisms. The Francistes. The Jeunesses Patriotes. The Action Francaise. Newspaper Allies. The Greenshirts. The Cagoule. The Fascist Left: Deat and Bergery --
3. The Solidarite Francaise. Leadership, Financing, and Membership. Rise and Fall. Was the Solidarite Francaise Fascist? Anti-Semitism. Praising Mussolini and Hitler and Calling for a Franco-Italian-German Alliance. Fascist Republicanism and National Socialism. Anti-Marxism. Antiliberalism. Women. Patriotism, Tradition, and the Veterans' Mystique --
4. The Croix de Feu / Parti Social Francais. Political History. La Rocque after 1940. Financing. Membership. Was La Rocque's Movement Fascist? Anti-Semitism. Antidemocracy. Paramilitarism. Anti-Marxism. "Neither Right nor Left" Antidecadence. Antiliberalism --
5. The Parti Populaire Francais. Jacques Doriot: The Communist Years, 1920-36. Doriot's Shift to Fascism. Fascist Symbolism. Financing. Leadership. Membership. National Socialism as Anti-Marxism, Cultural Traditionalism, Antifeminism, and Imperialism. National Socialism in the Writings of Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Raymon Fernandez, and Bertrand de Jouvenel. Antidemocracy, Antiliberalism, Antirationalism, and Anti-Semitism --
6. French Fascist Intellectuals and the Revolt against Decadence. Bertrand de Jouvenel. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. Robert Brasillach. Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Splitting.